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By Cindy Cohn Over the past week we've seen several media stories suggesting that the electronic voting machine issue is partisan. While there are certainly folks who would like to portray it that way, including Jeb Bush and unfortunately last week, the Washington Post, it's not true...

The controversial passenger-profiling system has officially been cancelled, but critics remain appropriately skeptical about what its "death" means. Below, a brief sampling of perspectives: Edward Hasbrouck @ The Practical Nomad: "Hours after announcing that the CAPPS II airline passenger profiling and monitoring system would be renamed...

James Grimmelmann @ LawMeme has a post demonstrating the sheer prolific magnitude of Ernest Miller's thinking & writing on the IICA/Induce Act, and adds a few well chosen words of his own: His coverage matters to lawyers, techies, copyfighters, and consumers. That is, everyone. Ignore it at...

Responding to growing public and congressional criticism of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Department of Justice this week released a new report to Congress singing its praises. As other commentators have already pointed out, the DoJ report, entitled "Report from the Field: The USA PATRIOT Act at...

EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer has concluded the below-referenced online colloquy on fair use and academic publishing; below, a snippet on the fair use argument for using Fox News clips to criticize the company's reporting: Question from Lloyd Davidson, Northwestern Univ.: Robert Greenwald's new film, Outfoxed:...

The fearless folks @ FreeCulture.org have just announced "Barbie-in-a-Blender Day," a unique campaign to support fair use and free expression. Snippet: Mattel isn't a big fan of free speech -- at least not when it applies to their products. So when Utah artist Tom Forsythe took [a...

Three good pieces on the state of email privacy post-U.S. v. Councilman and the need for an update to "wiretap" laws including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA): StarTribune.com: "Until Congress updates the laws it wrote when email was still in infancy, users ought to pause before...

The RIAA has been touting technologies offered by Audible Magic as the cure for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing on university campuses. The company has also been making the rounds of congressional offices in Washington, DC, talking up its technologies as a silver bullet for P2P infringement. We're...

On the heels of the brouhaha over OutFOXed comes yet another tale of copyright gone bad. The protagonist is Liane Curtis, who compiled an anthology that included excerpts of unpublished work by Anglo-American composer Rebecca Clarke for publication by Indiana University Press. The copyright to this work...

EFF Board Member Larry Lessigcalls the IICA a "lawyer employment act," arguing that it will "force technologists into court before they get to enter the marketplace" and "shift responsibility for striking the balance in copyright law from Congress to unelected federal judges." Ford has a ...

Four quick pointers on the Inducing Infringements of Copyright Act (a.k.a. Induce Act), which by extending copyright liability to those who "induce" infringement would give copyright holders an incredibly powerful tool to hamper the development of technologies like the iPod: USA Today: "Internet search giants Google and...